Bogdan C. Enache (CADI): What Is the West? From OUP, David Wengrow on his book What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West. From Rosetta, a review of Greek Mythology: Poetics, Pragmatics and Fiction by C. Calame and The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology; a review of Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice by Paul Cartledge; and a review of Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity by William V. Harris. A review of The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Political Thought. Peter Frost (Laval): The Roman State and Genetic Pacification. An interview with Peter Heather, author of Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Modern Europe. With The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, Jacob Burckhardt rediscovered the Renaissance for the 19th century, viewing it shockingly as the dark and turbulent origin of modernity. A review of History and the Enlightenment by Hugh Trevor-Roper. A review of In Defence of The Enlightenment by Tzvetan Todorov (and more). A review of Full Circle: How the Classical World Came Back to Us by Ferdinand Mount (and more and more and more). A review of In Search of Civilisation: Remaking a Tarnished Idea by John Armstrong. An interview with Spencer Wells, author of Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization (and more). A review of A Cosmist Manifesto: Practical Philosophy for the Posthuman Age by Ben Goertzel.
